Lost and Found is written to the church, using often-surprising results from the copious research here to strike another nerve and break some long established assumptions about how to effectively engage the lost. Leading missiologist Ed Stetzer and his associates first offer a detailed investigation of the four younger unchurched types. With a better understanding of their unique experiences, they next clarify the importance each type places on community, depth of content, social responsibility, and making cross-generational connections in relation to spiritual matters. Most valuably, Lost and Found finds the churches that have learned to reach unchurched young adults by paying close attention to those key markers vetted by the research. Their exciting stories will make it clear how your church can bring searching souls from this culture to authentic faith in Christ.
Archive for September, 2009
1st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 149 “Lost and Found” (Ed Stetzer, Richie Stanley, and Jason Hayes)
Monday, September 28th, 20091st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 148 “Notes from the Underground” (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Monday, September 21st, 2009A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky’s writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. A dark and politically charged novel, Notes from the Underground shows Dostoevsky at his best.
1st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 147 “Remembering” (Wendell Berry)
Monday, September 14th, 2009It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, is walking the streets of San Francisco at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has also lost himself. Two thousand miles from his home in Kentucky, he begins to remember people, the land, and the comfort of knowing his place intimately. Andy’s reveries evoke a membership governed by the principles of humanity and love. Inspiring and eye-opening, Remembering follows Andy’s journey out of darkness and into the warm light of community.
1st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 146 “A World Lost” (Wendell Berry)
Monday, September 7th, 2009It is the summer of 1944, and nine-year-old Andy Catlett is engrossed in the wide easy countryside near Port William, Kentucky. But sadness, loss, and mystery invade Andy’s world on a hot July afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered.